Mick, our individual rights began to diminish almost from the beginning. Several Presidents tried to bring equality in America through a redistribution of wealth. Building federal businesses only was a bandaid and did little to strengthen individual talents and trades. We are in the middle of another try at taxing the business owners and the wealthy and again another cheap bandaid will be applied.
Our media and leaders have honed the concept of blaming others for the mess we are in and Governor Palin is right in there with her comments. I was too young to recognize the bandaids applied by FDR but saw the results of feeding and sheltering millions of Americans who lost everything. I saw the same when President Reagan approved of Amnesty in America for our undocumented aliens. The problem is that it has become the responsibility of the federal government to cast the safety net over all of us.
Governor Palin's comments were made to cover her own ass when it comes to the time for the 2012 election. I read the first of her books and it was whining from cover to cover. I believe she saw Betty Hutton's movie on Annie Oakley too many times and Palin even took on Hutton's walk of a cowboy in drag.
Are we so accustomed to corruption in our government that a Sarah Palin could actually get elected? Here in Arizona, that is the case.
I do not want our federal government to attempt to stop free speech but I see nothing wrong with returning to the size of the magazines that allows the massacres of dozens of people over 10 or so. I have been a member of the NRA for years but did not renew my membership last year.
Sandy
